<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421571" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Peter Released From Prison</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fervent persevering prayers<br>Are faith's assured resource,<br>Brazen gates, and iron bars,<br>In vain withstand their force:<br>Peter when in prison cast,<br>Though by soldiers kept with care;<br>Though the doors were bolted fast,<br>Was soon released by prayer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While he slept an angel came<br>And spread a light around;<br>Touched, and called him by his name,<br>And raised him from the ground:<br>All his chains and fetters burst,<br>Every door wide open flew;<br>Peter thought he dreamed, at first,<br>But found the vision true. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus the Lord can make a way<br>To bring his saints relief;<br>'Tis their part, to wait and pray,<br>In spite of unbelief:<br>He can break through walls of stone,<br>Sink the mountain to a plain;<br>They, to whom his name is known;<br>Can never pray in vain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus in chains of guilt and sin,<br>Poor sinners sleeping lie;<br>No alarm is felt within,<br>Although condemned to die:<br>Till descending from above<br>Mercy smiling in his eyes<br>Jesus, with a voice of love,<br>Awakes, and bids them rise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glad the summons they obey,<br>And liberty desire;<br>Strait their fetters melt away,<br>Like wax before the fire:<br>By the word of him who died,<br>Guilty pris'ners to release;<br>Every door flies open wide,<br>And they depart in peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Newton">John Newton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421571" data-title="Peter Released From Prison de John Newton" data-description="Fervent persevering prayers Are faith's assured resource, Brazen gates, and iron bars, In vain withstand their force: Peter when in prison cast, Though by soldiers kept with care; Though the doors were bolted fast, Was soon released by prayer. W..."></div> </div> </div>

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